Essays Tagged: "Education"

Child Labour

ement of children in labour force activities when they are at an age when other activities, such as education and play, should be the central role in development. However, child labour represents an e ... d until acceptable levels of economic level and income equality have been achieved. One of these is education, '...which is considered a more important and appropriate activity for children, and which ...

(5 pages) 303 1 4.8 Mar/1997

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

Starting a Business on the Internet. A recommendation in letter form.

earsago, when a student graduated they were basically thrown out into the real world with justtheir education and their wits. Most of the time this wasn't good enough because afterthree or four years ...

(2 pages) 207 0 4.4 Nov/1994

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

Evita

Evita have conflicting views of how one should beat the stereotype that they face.Cofer feels that education is the best way a Latino woman can oust the stereotype of them being lower class citizens ... being lower class citizens or as being easy. She realises that not every Latino woman has the same educational opportunities as she had and because of the majority of Latino women perpetuating the my ...

(3 pages) 79 0 4.5 Apr/1996

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Symbolism in "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

tructed to know his place at all times.From the very beginning of the novel the narrator values his education. His education first brings him a calfskin briefcase, when the superintendent rewards him ...

(3 pages) 221 0 3.8 Mar/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Socrates on Athenian law and obedience

responsibility and obligation to obey the laws of their society, 2) because the society gave you an education and family, you owe obedience to that society and finally 3) by remaining in that society ... Socrates argument about responsibility to one's societies laws is that your society gave you birth, education and nurturing and all a share of all the good things it could (Crito 51d). If someone were ...

(6 pages) 347 0 4.1 Mar/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Classical Philosophy

Divorce and children

lives. I try to teach my children right from wrong, just as my parents taught me. I have started my education over to help them understand the importance of learning and to provide the necessary funds ...

(3 pages) 165 0 4.8 Mar/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

Reason for Returning to School This essay describes the reasons why working adults, like myself, decided to go back to college and obtain a degree.

not having one when it comes to searching for a job.More and more each year, I see new programs for education that are designed for working adults. If there were no real demand for these programs, I b ... edentials to be able to compete. Even though I have built my experience through years of on the job education, I feel that by obtaining a graduate or even undergraduate degree is the only way to secur ...

(3 pages) 183 0 4.2 Mar/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

Reason for Returning to School This essay describes the reasons why working adults, like myself, decided to go back to college and obtain a degree.

not having one when it comes to searching for a job.More and more each year, I see new programs for education that are designed for working adults. If there were no real demand for these programs, the ... to be able to compete with them. Even though I have built my experience through years of on the job education, by obtaining a graduate or even undergraduate degree is the only way to secure my positio ...

(3 pages) 284 0 3.5 Mar/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

Jane Eyre and Hard Times as Bildungsroman Novels. This essay examines the traditional bildungsroman novel, using the examples of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Charles Dicken's Hard Times.

some form of loss or discontentment in order to spur them away from the family home or setting. The education of the main character is another aspect, which is crucial to their growth and development ... that of his own childhood experiences. Like Pip, Dickens received very little in the way of formal education.Charlotte Bronte uses many similarities in Jane Eyre that could be argued resemble her own ...

(9 pages) 164 0 3.3 Apr/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

Living Behind a White Lie as an Afghan-American Muslim woman

slim woman. Afghan woman are a minority of a minority. A very small percent of Afghan women have an education and don't get to be successful because the culture discourages independence for women. In ... ll. In fact, it happens in my own family. My cousin has an arranged marriage and has been denied an education by her husband. In a culture dominated by males, even the women internalize those views. A ...

(4 pages) 101 1 4.1 Apr/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

The lose of black culture

gh after slavery and the abundance of other problems we have encountered. The health, unemployment, education, and suicide problems were all created by our lack of understanding survival and the lack ... as had leaders but the white race has institutions (not meaning the building but way of thought and education) live on. If the upper class, the ones who have been educated by the Europeans will write ...

(4 pages) 148 0 3.9 Apr/2002

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Black Awareness & Racism

school based assessment and reporting

ssay by Alan Hamilton 2001Assessment recording and reportingAssessment is a judgment of quality, in education, it relates to the testing and examination of students, teachers, and schools and at the e ... (See Appendix 3 for an example of a School assessment, recording and reporting policy)Assessment in education can be divided into four main types of assessment·Formative assessmentAn ongoing pr ...

(11 pages) 543 1 4.9 Apr/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

Philosophies of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle

the same beliefs. He believed that government should only have rulers who had the intelligence and education appropriate for the matter. His thoughts were that a job should be done only by those who ... ics mostly dealt with life such as government, opinions toward justice and how people really viewed education.Aristotle also had his own theories towards his belief of the 'right government'. He wante ...

(2 pages) 274 0 3.8 Jan/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics

The Comparison of Karl Marx and Matthew Arnold

and thought of the time' (19). Matthew Arnold's culture is based on two main aspects, religion and education. Karl Marx, however, strongly contrasts Arnold's ideas. Marx views culture as being derive ... xpansion. Arnold believed culture was based on the expansion of the individual's mind; only through education can a perfect culture be reached. In his writings, Arnold stated that for a man to be cult ...

(3 pages) 69 0 4.6 Jan/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics

Blaise Pascal

ved the family to Paris in 1631,partly to presue his own scientific studies, partly to carry on the education ofhis only son, who had already displayed exceptional ability. Blaise was keptat home in o ... ty. Blaise was keptat home in order to ensure his not being overworked, and it was directedthat his education should be at first confined to the study of languages, andshould not include any mathemati ...

(2 pages) 67 0 4.7 Dec/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Mathematics

Learning and Teaching through Experience. Speaks of "Narrative of the Life of an American Slave" by Frederick Douglass

orld, and is one that is not adapted by enough people to actually bring forth this benefit.To most, education is something taught, something told, or something heard. To Frederick Douglass, education ... arned, and most importantly, something he lived. Frederick Douglass did not have the basic tools of education handed to him. He only sought for these tools, found ways to learn, and utilized what he h ...

(4 pages) 128 0 3.7 Feb/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Aids discrimination

The Education of A.I.D.S DiscriminationEmployees are being discriminated against for their infectious il ... o isn't infected with A.I.D.S. A.I.D.S Discrimination in a job-related atmosphere is due to lack of education and sensitivity.The infection of HIV does not reduce an employee's efficiency from satisfa ... ordinated a program called 'Business Responds to A.I.D.S.' Its main initiative is to involve better education by sensitizing executives, managers, and labor leaders. If they draft new policies for the ...

(7 pages) 195 0 5.0 Nov/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

incorperates ideas of what an accademic attitude is

level of thinking, the student must actively pursue his learning. The way a student approaches his education, whether he be in junior high or seeking his doctorate, is his academic attitude.The stude ... ching learning with a free mind demonstrates quality academic attitude.It is commonly believed that education is based on the fact that a student is to handed information by the teacher (Freire 23). I ...

(4 pages) 47 0 3.0 Jan/1997

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

Business in computer

earsago, when a student graduated they were basically thrown out into the real world with justtheir education and their wits. Most of the time this wasn't good enough because afterthree or four years ...

(2 pages) 70 0 3.4 Mar/1996

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Wife of bath, on of Chaucer's wisest characters

r tale. She is a self professed authority on the etiquette of marriage. Her extensive knowledge and education on matters of the heart have been acquired through experience, and through the conventiona ...

(5 pages) 110 0 3.3 Mar/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature